Great Chatwell (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.7° N, 2.3° W: paleocoordinates 15.6° N, 10.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• "Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation, Lower-Middle Anisian, Middle Triassic" (King et al. 2005), previously "Keuper"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by B. Thompson in 1905

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• NOMCM - Northampton Museum, UK

Primary reference: W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1974. A history and bibliography of the study of fossil vertebrate footprints in the British Isles. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 16:265-378 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197353: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 06.11.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Chirotherium sp. Kaup 1835 archosaur
NOMCM 1922.29.624P
Chirotherium sickleri Kaup 1835 archosaur
Chirotherium barthii Kaup 1835 archosaur